Karen Armstrong Books in Order
Karen Armstrong is a renowned comparative religion specialist and prolific author, celebrated for her insightful writings on the world's major faiths. Her extensive body of work includes thought-provoking books such as The Case for God, A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and Fields of Blood, as well as her poignant memoir, The Spiral Staircase. With a global reach, her work has been translated into 45 languages. Armstrong's influence extends beyond literature, as she was awarded the TED Prize in 2008, which led to her collaboration with TED on the Charter for Compassion. This landmark initiative was crafted by leading thinkers from diverse faiths and launched globally in 2009. Her contributions to interfaith understanding have earned her numerous accolades, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal and the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding in 2013.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Karen Armstrong
- #1AmazonThomas Paine's Rights of Man (By: Christopher Hitchens)(2006)
- #2AmazonThe Qur'an: A Biography (By: Bruce B. Lawrence)(2006)
- #3AmazonDarwin's Origin of Species: A Biography (By: Janet Browne)(2006)
- #4AmazonOn The Wealth of Nations (By: P.J. O'Rourke)(2006)
- #5AmazonHomer's The Iliad And The Odyssey (By: Alberto Manguel)(2007)
- #6AmazonThe Bible(2007)
- #7AmazonThe Qur'an (By: Bruce B. Lawrence)(2007)
- #8AmazonDarwin's Origin of Species (By: Janet Browne)(2007)
- #9AmazonPlato's Republic (By: Simon Blackburn)(2007)
- #10AmazonClausewitz's on War (By: Hew Strachan)(2007)
- #11AmazonMarx's Das Kapital (By: Francis Wheen)(2007)
- #1AmazonA Short History of Myth(2004)
- #2AmazonLion's Honey: The Myth of Samson (By: David Grossman)(2005)
- #3AmazonThe Penelopiad (By: Margaret Atwood)(2005)
- #4AmazonWeight (By: Jeanette Winterson)(2005)
- #5AmazonThe Helmet of Horror (By: Victor Pelevin)(2005)
- #6AmazonWhere Three Roads Meet (By: Salley Vickers)(2005)
- #7AmazonBinu and the Great Wall (By: Su Tong)(2006)
- #8AmazonBaba Yaga Laid an Egg (By: Dubravka Ugrešić)(2007)
- #9AmazonThe Goddess Chronicle (By: Natsuo Kirino)(2013)
- #1AmazonMuhammad: A Prophet for Our Time(1991)
- #2AmazonUlysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero (By: Michael Korda)(2004)
- #3AmazonGeorge Balanchine (By: Robert Gottlieb)(2004)
- #4AmazonBeethoven (By: Edmund Morris)(2005)
- #5AmazonThomas Jefferson (By: Christopher Hitchens)(2005)
- #6AmazonCaravaggio (By: Francine Prose)(2005)
- #7AmazonAlexander the Great (By: Norman F. Cantor)(2005)
- #8AmazonFreud (By: Peter D. Kramer)(2006)
- #9AmazonFrancis Crick (By: Matt Ridley)(2006)
- #10AmazonAlexis de Tocqueville (By: Joseph Epstein)(2006)
- #11AmazonShakespeare (By: Bill Bryson)(2007)
- #12AmazonMachiavelli (By: Ross King)(2007)
- #13AmazonGeorge Washington (By: Paul Johnson)(2009)
- #1AmazonCalifornia (By: Kevin Starr)(1980)
- #2AmazonCommunism (By: Richard Pipes)(1994)
- #3AmazonLondon (By: A.N. Wilson)(1995)
- #4AmazonThe Balkans (By: Mark Mazower)(2000)
- #5AmazonThe German Empire (By: Michael Sturmer)(2000)
- #6AmazonThe Catholic Church (By: Hans Küng)(2001)
- #7AmazonPeoples and Empires (By: Anthony Pagden)(2001)
- #8AmazonHitler and the Holocaust (By: Robert S. Wistrich)(2001)
- #9AmazonLaw in America (By: Lawrence M. Friedman)(2002)
- #10AmazonThe American Revolution (By: Gordon S. Wood)(2002)
- #11AmazonInventing Japan (By: Ian Buruma)(2003)
- #12AmazonThe Americas (By: Felipe Fernández-Armesto)(2003)
- #13AmazonThe Boys' Crusade (By: Paul Fussell)(2003)
- #14AmazonThe Reformation (By: Patrick Collinson)(2003)
- #15AmazonThe Company (By: Adrian Wooldridge,John Micklethwait)(2003)
- #16AmazonThe Age of Shakespeare (By: Frank Kermode)(2004)
- #17AmazonThe Age of Napoleon (By: Alistair Horne)(2004)
- #18AmazonInfinite Ascent (By: David Berlinski)(2004)
- #19AmazonEvolution (By: Edward J. Larson)(2004)
- #20AmazonNazism and War (By: Richard Bessel)(2004)
- #21AmazonThe City (By: Joel Kotkin)(2005)
- #22AmazonA Short History of Medicine (By: F. González-Crussí)(2006)
- #23AmazonStorm from the East (By: Milton Viorst)(2006)
- #24AmazonBaseball (By: George Vecsey)(2006)
- #25AmazonThe Hellenistic Age (By: Peter Green)(2007)
- #26AmazonPrehistory (By: Colin Renfrew)(2007)
- #27AmazonThe Renaissance (By: Paul Johnson)(2007)
- #28AmazonIslam(2007)
- #29AmazonThe Christian World (By: Martin E. Marty)(2008)
- #30AmazonDangerous Games (By: Margaret MacMillan)(2008)
- #31AmazonThe Romantic Revolution (By: Timothy C.W. Blanning)(2010)
- #32AmazonThe Korean War (By: Bruce Cumings)(2010)
- #1AmazonBeginning the World(1983)
- #2AmazonThe First Christian(1983)
- #3AmazonThe Gospel According to Woman(1986)
- #4AmazonHoly War(1988)
- #5AmazonThe English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century(1991)
- #6AmazonThe End of Silence(1993)
- #7AmazonA History of God(1993)
- #8AmazonVisions of God(1994)
- #9AmazonJerusalem(1996)
- #10AmazonIn the Beginning(1996)
- #11AmazonShifting Ground and Cultural Bodies(1999)
- #12AmazonThe Battle for God(2000)
- #13AmazonFaith After 11 September(2002)
- #14AmazonThe Great Transformation(2006)
- #15AmazonThe Case for God(2009)
- #16AmazonThe Epistle of Paul the Apostle to The Hebrews(2010)
- #17AmazonTwelve Steps to a Compassionate Life(2010)
- #18AmazonA Letter To Pakistan(2011)
- #19AmazonFields of Blood(2014)
- #20AmazonThe Lost Art of Scripture(2019)
- #21AmazonSacred Nature(2022)
- #22AmazonThe Story Of God(2022)
- #23AmazonThrough the Narrow Gate(1981)
- #24AmazonMuhammad: A Prophet for Our Time(1991)
- #25AmazonThe Spiral Staircase(2004)
- #1AmazonAbraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally)(1960)
- #2AmazonMao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence)(1999)
- #3AmazonMozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay)(1999)
- #4AmazonMarcel Proust (By: Edmund White)(1999)
- #5AmazonCrazy Horse (By: Larry McMurtry)(1999)
- #6AmazonSaint Augustine (By: Garry Wills)(1999)
- #7AmazonJames Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien)(1999)
- #8AmazonRosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley)(2000)
- #9AmazonVirginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson)(2000)
- #10AmazonWoodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss)(2000)
- #11AmazonHerman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick)(2000)
- #12AmazonLeonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland)(2000)
- #13AmazonDante (By: R.W.B. Lewis)(2001)
- #14AmazonJane Austen: A Life (By: Carol Shields)(2001)
- #15AmazonBuddha(2001)
- #16AmazonSimone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray)(2001)
- #17AmazonAndy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum)(2001)
- #18AmazonMartin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady)(2001)
- #19AmazonJoseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini)(2002)
- #20AmazonWinston Churchill: A Life (By: John Keegan)(2002)
- #21AmazonPope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill)(2002)
- #22AmazonCharles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley)(2002)
- #23AmazonElvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason)(2002)
- #24AmazonSaint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison)(2003)
- #25AmazonRobert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.)(2003)
- #26AmazonFrank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable)(2004)
- #27AmazonGeorge Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker)(2004)
- #28AmazonNapoleon (By: Paul Johnson)(2006)
- #29AmazonJulia Child (By: Laura Shapiro)(2007)
- #30AmazonJoan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon)(2008)
- #31AmazonMartin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty)(2008)
- #32AmazonBranch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin)(2011)
- #33AmazonTongues of Fire(1986)
- #34AmazonThe Changing Face of God(2000)
- #35AmazonGod at 2000(2001)
About Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong is a renowned comparative religion specialist and prolific author, celebrated for her insightful writings on the world's major faiths. Her extensive body of work includes thought-provoking books such as The Case for God, A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and Fields of Blood, as well as her poignant memoir, The Spiral Staircase. With a global reach, her work has been translated into 45 languages. Armstrong's influence extends beyond literature, as she was awarded the TED Prize in 2008, which led to her collaboration with TED on the Charter for Compassion. This landmark initiative was crafted by leading thinkers from diverse faiths and launched globally in 2009. Her contributions to interfaith understanding have earned her numerous accolades, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal and the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding in 2013.
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